Digital Government
Pentagon Won’t Demolish Alaskan Radio Research Site Until 2015
Defense wants research institutions to take over operation of HAARP.
Digital Government
The U.S. Just Found Some Rogue Smallpox In a Closet, No Big Deal
Vials of a smallpox-causing virus in a lab's storage room.
Cybersecurity
Security Firm Says Chinese Hackers Targeting U.S. Experts on Iraq
CrowdStrike says hacking began on June 18 —the day the rebel group Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant attacked an oil refinery.
Cybersecurity
Snowden Undermines Presidential Panel’s Defense of NSA Spying
Dueling narratives are clouding a debate over a controversial foreign-intelligence program as the Senate readies reform efforts.
Digital Government
The Latest Snowden Leak Is Devastating to NSA Defenders
The agency collected and stored intimate chats, photos, and emails belonging to innocent Americans—and secured them so poorly that reporters can now browse them at will.
Emerging Tech
NASA's Zombie Spacecraft Learns to Fire Its Engines
As the presumed-dead probe hurtles toward Earth, the deadline for saving it looms.
Cybersecurity
NSA critics, storm warnings and free books
News and notes from around the federal IT community.
Modernization
Pivoting for the next big leap in government IT
For all the advancements we've seen in consumer technology and enterprise applications in the past couple of decades, government networks have remained largely unchanged.
Modernization
DOT CIO on cyber, shared services and 'technology that is changing constantly'
Transportation Department CIO Richard McKinney says striking a balance between centralized and decentralized IT is one of his greatest challenges.
Modernization
DEA probes geospatial cloud
The Drug Enforcement Administration hopes to establish a hybrid cloud environment that would allow federal, state and local governments to use the DEA's mapping tool.
Modernization
DEA probes geospatial cloud
The Drug Enforcement Agency plans to develop a mapping tool to be shared across federal, state, and local law enforcement.
Acquisition
DoD plans upgrade to COBOL-based contract system
The Pentagon is looking to replace a 50-year-old content management system.
Cybersecurity
Air Force major general tapped for No. 2 spot at Cyber Command
Air Force Maj. Gen. James “Kevin” McLaughlin is now commander of the 24th Air Force, the service’s major cyberspace component.
Cybersecurity
Waterfront Retirement Communities staff subjected to ID theft
Hospitality // United States
Digital Government
Why the Government Is Probably About to Go on a Spending Spree
Agencies usually buy 39 percent of their IT in the fourth quarter of the fiscal year.
Modernization
DEA Anticipates Awarding Contract for Sensitive Justice Cloud
Potential savings are a key motivator for the drug-fighting agency's move.
People
VA deputy CIO resigns
Lorraine Landfried, a 2013 Federal 100 winner, plans to launch her own consulting firm.
Cybersecurity
Classification by the numbers, website sprawl, a new DARPA deal and more
News and notes from around the federal IT community.
Modernization